12 Days Vietnam Holiday: Ha Noi-Ha Long-Hue-Hoi An-Ho Chi Minh-Mekong

Arrival at Noi Bai Airport.
Then transfer with guide to hotel. Free at leisure.

Take a city tour in the morning to visit Ho Chi Minh’ Mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, and Literature Temple. In the afternoon take a biking trip to Bat Trang.

Private transfer with no guide from Ha Noi to Ha Long Bay. Check-in your boat. Lunch, dinner included.

Galaxy cruise in the morning. At 12.00 check out, a private driver picks you up (no guide) and transfer back to Ha Noi. Check in hotel. Free at leisure.

Transfer to Ha Noi airport (no guide) for flight to Dong Hoi. A guide will pick you up & transfers to check-in at your hotel to put luggage and have light breakfast (included).  Your tour starts with a boat trip to Phong Nha – Ke Bang (Tien Son & Phong Nha) cave. Biking back to Hotel (30′) and relax. Lunch (included) at Son Doong Restaurant. Overnight in Phong Nha.

Dong Hoi – surroundings  (B, L) –  Visit Tam Co (Eight Ladies) temple, botanical gardens.  Lunch (included) in Dark Cave restaurant. Continue to Dark Cave (by kayak/ziplines) in the afternoon. Overnight in Phong Nha.

Dong Hoi – Hue by car (B) – After breakfast, check out and transfer to Hue city. On the way, we will stop to visit Vinh Moc DMZ and Hien Luong bridge. Overnight in Hue city.

Morning tour Hue: Boat trip to Thien Mu Pagoda and Tu Duc tomb and Citadel. In the afternoon, transfer with a guide to Hai Van Pass and Hoi An. Overnight in Hoi An.

Half day biking tour in Hoi An around Tra Que village for cooking class. In the afternoon, free at leisure.
Program:
8:00 local guide picks up at the hotel’s lobby. Take a ride by bike to the downtown, stop by Hoi An’s colorful central market. Here you will have an opportunity to interact with the local sellers and learn about the ingredients which will be used in the cooking lesson later, so make sure your camera is handy.
10:00 bike to Tra Que vegetable village. Welcome drink for relaxation and walk through the vegetable gardens where local farmers work in their fields using old traditional methods without any machines which have been used for hundreds of year. 11:00 Work together with the chef. Learn the traditional way of preparing and cooking Vietnamese food. After the lesson, enjoy what you have cooked.
Menu:
• Tra Que vegetable salad Tam Huu dish
• Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Pancake)
• Hoi An spring rolls

A car picks you up & transfers to Da Nang airport for flight to Sai Gon. Upon your arrival at Sai Gon airport, a guide picks you up for Cu Chi excursion. In the afternoon, transfer back to your hotel.

Full day tour to Ben Tre. A guide picks you up by car, then transfers to Ben Tre. Take a boat trip to cruise along the Ham Luong river (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local workplaces for your experience of the local economy, including a brickmaker where bricks are still painstakingly made by hand; a coconut processing workshop where you can sample fresh coconut and see how every single part of this versatile nut turned into food and other products; a mat weaving house, where straw mats are woven using a hand loom – you can even have a go at weaving yourself!
The boat will then stop at a quiet village where you can have a short walk to experience real Delta village life, before cycle into the forest where you will find fruit orchards before stop at a riverside restaurant for a delicious lunch featuring local specialties such as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp with some cold drinks or beers.
It’s time to board a sampan for a relaxing trip along narrow canals. Take a boat back to Pier, then you will be transferred back to Sai Gon.

Car with no guide picks you up & transfers to Sai Gon airport for flight back home.